Emergency Preparedness & Resilience Manager

Woodlands Hospital; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Woodlands Health is a leading Singaporean integrated healthcare campus focused on preparedness and resilience. The Manager, Emergency Planning will steer hospital-wide emergency programmes, coordinate incidents, and align with NHG, MOH, and national agencies to safeguard patients and staff.

This role demands cross-functional leadership and a proactive, strategic mindset for continous improvement. You will drive civil emergency exercises, disease outbreak readiness, and business continuity

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent with relevant healthcare emergency experience.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional emergency initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale preparedness programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead hospital-wide emergency preparedness planning and review.
• Develop and maintain emergency response plans, workflows and protocols.
• Coordinate readiness activities across clinical, nursing, operations and support services.
• Monitor preparedness levels and maintain practical response plans.
• Drive improvements from exercises, incidents and reviews.
• Oversee Hospital Duty Officer responsibilities and 24/7 standby roster.
• Coordinate activation of the Hospital Command Centre during incidents.
• Lead civil emergency exercises and national preparedness initiatives.
• Plan for disease outbreaks, ensure outbreak workflows and drills.
• Support business continuity and organisational resilience programmes.
• Engage National/External partners for preparedness and exercises.
• Governance: maintain documentation, trackers and project plans.

Skills

Emergency planning

Crisis management

Incident management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Strategic planning

Communication

Education

Degree in Public Health, Healthcare Management, Business, Emergency Management or related

Job description

Woodlands Health is a leading Singaporean integrated healthcare campus focused on preparedness and resilience. The Manager, Emergency Planning will steer hospital-wide emergency programmes, coordinate incidents, and align with NHG, MOH, and national agencies to safeguard patients and staff.

This role demands cross-functional leadership and a proactive, strategic mindset for continous improvement. You will drive civil emergency exercises, disease outbreak readiness, and business continuity